Nevada · Nonprofit
NEVADA HUMANITIES INC
NEVADA HUMANITIES INC (Nevada) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $590,506 to it, the largest being FEDERATION OF STATE HUMANITIES COUNCILS ($320,486). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $591k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Nevada Humanities Inc does
Mission
Page 2, part iii, line 1: nevada humanities connects and transforms communities by sharing and amplifying the stories, ideas, experiences, and traditions of the diverse people of nevada.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
With offices in reno and las vegas, nevada humanities creates public cultural programs and supports humanities-focused projects statewide that articulate the nevada experience and facilitate the exploration of ideas that matter to nevadans and their communities. Founded in 1971 and incorporated as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in 1974, nevada humanities is one of 56 independent, nonprofit state and jurisdictional humanities councils affiliated with the national endowment for the humanities. Nevada humanities programs include: grantmaking program, nevada humanities exhibition series, nevada humanities literary crawl, las vegas writes, las vegas book festival, nevada humanities awards, online nevada encyclopedia, humanities at play, nevada center for the book, humanities heart to heart, halcyon publication series, sagebrush to sandstone and special initiatives. For more information visit www.nevadahumanities.org.
$581,478 spent$9,587 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $581,478.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $1.0M to $1.5M (+40%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 85% · 2018 87% · 2019 94% · 2020 91% · 2021 90% · 2022 95% · 2023 86% · 2024 95% · 2025 62%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Christina Barr
Executive director
Board chair
Shaun Griffin
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $75k → $10k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of NEVADA HUMANITIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
NEVADA HUMANITIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund NEVADA HUMANITIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 56% · 2019 68% · 2020 56% · 2021 64% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
NEVADA HUMANITIES INC draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Nevada, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $213k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Government funding NEVADA HUMANITIES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.6M on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$8.6M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like NEVADA HUMANITIES INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Nevada
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NEVADA HUMANITIES INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NEVADA HUMANITIES INC?
- NEVADA HUMANITIES INC (Nevada) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $590,506 to it, the largest being FEDERATION OF STATE HUMANITIES COUNCILS ($320,486). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEVADA HUMANITIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $590,506 in grants to NEVADA HUMANITIES INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEVADA HUMANITIES INC?
- FEDERATION OF STATE HUMANITIES COUNCILS is the largest funder on record, with $320,486 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEVADA HUMANITIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nevada. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing